five highlights of my year in reading
Friday, December 30th, 2016
1. Gorgeous memoirs of appalling events
2. Rich, thinky SF by women
3. Excellent narrative history on audiobook
- This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
- The Guns of August
- The Summit: Bretton Woods, 1944: J. M. Keynes and the Reshaping of the Global Economy
- The Gene: An Intimate History
4. My own sundered history, restored to me in various ways
- A Field Guide to Aboriginal Rock Engravings: With Special Reference to Those Around Sydney
- Repossession Of Our Spirit: Traditional Owners Of Northern Sydney
- Anthology of Australian Aboriginal Literature
- Forgotten War
5. In spite of everyone who says how good they are, really very, very good
